How to pass authentication header to OData Service

Question

I am following authentication method described at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astoriateam/archive/2010/07/21/odata-and-authentication-part-6-custom-basic-authentication.aspx

I am able to consume service using ASP.NET (not a problem at all). Now I would like to create a plain HTML page and access the service using "OData Javascript Library" (datajs).

If I disable authentication and request for data, it works fine. I could not find any sample code on how to send authentication header information using "datajs" (when used with OData.Request and/or OData.Read).

Can anyone help me on this?

Answer 1

If you're using basic authentication as described in the post, you can use the request parameter of OData.request to pass in the username and password.

http://datajs.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=datajs%20OData%20API#OData.request

You could write something like:

OData.request({requestUri:"...", user:"user", password:"secret"}, function (data) { ... });

Note that this will not work with cross-domain AJAX.

Hope this helps!